Saturday, June 21, 2014

Weekend Roundup

Congratulations to a former student of mine, Joseph E. Hower, for wining Labor History’s dissertation prize for “Jerry Wurf, the Rise of AFSCME, and the Fate of Labor Liberalism, 1947-1981.” His advisor was Joseph McCartin. DRE

Law in the Conquest of L.A.: Roman Hoyos over at Jotwell on David Samuel Torres-Rouff, Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 (2013).